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Healthy Flourless Chocolate Cake (Vegan)

Dessert, Gluten-Free, Recipes, Vegan

A few days ago, my YouTube channel turned 1 year old! To celebrate this special occasion I decided to make a healthy version of a chocolate cake. This cake is gluten-free and vegan. It doesn’t contain any flour or white sugar. You might be asking yourself, “How is that even possible?”. Well my friends, it is!

I used cooked quinoa as the base for this cake and I sweetened it with agave nectar and coconut palm sugar which is considered the healthiest alternative to white sugar according to Dr. Oz.

Healthy Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake by FablunchFor icing, I made some delicious vegan chocolate ganache using coconut milk and dark chocolate and I decorated this chocolate goodness with fresh strawberries.

You can also use raspberries, bananas or peaches to decorate this cake. I’ve tried all these variations and the cake always turns out incredibly scrumptious!

Healthy Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake by FablunchThis heathy dessert is definitely a treat for your body. So do not feel guilty if you end having a second slice. 😉

Healthy Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake by Fablunch

Healthy Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake by FablunchMmmm chocolate…

If you’re a chocolate lover like me, try my Raw Vegan Chocolate Macaroons as well. You won’t regret it.

I promise! 😀

Healthy Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake by Fablunch

Healthy Flourless Chocolate Cake (Vegan)
 
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Serves: 14
Ingredients
Flourless Chocolate Cake
  • ⅔ cup of quinoa (2 cups of cooked quinoa)
  • ⅓ cup almond milk
  • 1⅓ applesauce
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ½ cup agave nectar
  • ¾ cup melted coconut oil
  • ¾ cup coconut palm sugar
  • 1 cup cocoa/cacao
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • baking sprat or coconut oil to grease baking pans
  • 400 gr strawberries
Vegan Chocolate Ganache
  • 200 gr dark chocolate (70 or 85% cocoa solids)
  • 200 ml coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp agave nectar
  • pinch of salt
Directions
Flourless Chocolate Cake
  1. Preheat the oven to 350F/175C.
  2. Grease 2 baking pans with baking spray or coconut oil and line the bottom with parchment paper.
  3. In a blender, combine almond milk, applesauce, vanilla and agave nectar. Blend for about 20 seconds. Then add cooked quinoa and melted coconut oil.
  4. Blend all ingredients for another 30-40 seconds until smooth.
  5. In a large bowl, mix together coconut palm sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  6. Add the quinoa mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix well so that all ingredients are well incorporated.
  7. Divide evenly between the 2 baking pans and bake for 1hr-1hr 20 mins.
  8. After an hour, check if your cake is ready by inserting a knife or toothpick. If it comes out clean, your cake is done.
  9. Remove from the oven and let cool completely in the baking pans.
  10. Meanwhile, wash strawberries and cut them lengthwise.
  11. When the cake is completely cool, place the first layer on a plate. You want to invert it so that the surface is flat.
  12. Cover with ⅓ of chocolate ganache and strawberries.
  13. Place the second cake layer on top and frost the top and the sides of the cake with the rest of the ganache.
  14. To decorate the cake with strawberries, start by placing a ring of strawberries with their points facing out. Continue layering rings of strawberries around the cake, overlapping each layer, until you reach the centre.
Vegan Chocolate Ganache
  1. Heat coconut milk in a small pot over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
  2. Melt chocolate in a double boiler. If you don't have one, fill half of a medium pot with water and bring to a simmer. Place a ceramic or glass plate on top of the pot. Add chocolate to the plate and melt, stirring occasionally.
  3. Remove coconut milk and chocolate from the heat and combine.
  4. Add pinch of salt and agave nectar. Mix well.
  5. Let set at room temperature for 1h 30min - 2 hours.
Notes
Prepare quinoa the usual way. Except, after simmering it for 10 minutes, turn off the heat and leave it on the burner for another 10 minutes. This will give quinoa fluffier texture.
The cake can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

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Comments

  1. Great vid as always! (: And Happy Birthday to your channel =) Keep doing
    what you do..cuz you are obviously amazing at it. xo

  10. I hope you do! 😀 And it tastes just like chocolate cake lol I don’t tell
    my siblings what it’s made of because they are really picky with their
    food. And they don’t notice any difference.

  14. Hi Olga! Where I live there’s no way to find coconut palm sugar… What can
    I replace it with? Stevia? How much? Thanks for this awesome videos!!

  15. Спасибо! :)) Так как я делаю, нет, не очень сладкий получается. Я особо
    сильно сладкие дессерты не люблю.

  17. Thank you Jesika!! I’m not too sure about the nutritional info. I’ll try to
    find out and include it in the description box 🙂

  18. My pleasure! :)) I haven’t tried using stevia in this recipe, but I think 1
    tsp of powdered stevia should work. Taste the batter after you blend all
    the ingredients to check out the sweetness and adjust if needed.

  21. Waw Olga, that looks so tasty! I am definitively keeping the recipes in mind for the next birthday to celebrate! How cool is to use quinoa as a base! Love it! You are so creative! Happy Birthday and wish you many successful years here on YT!

  22. I love your channel, thank you for posting such creative but simple, delicious, healthy recipes! I know you mentioned it in the video, but could you please remind me of the temperature and time that you baked it? Thank you!

  23. Hello! So I made this cake! I did have some problems though 🙁 It still wasn’t fully cooked after over an hour and a half in the oven. I was impatient and took it out after that. And then it collapsed :(. I think I may have over blended (I was using a hand blender, not a food processor because I don’t have one). I think I may have put too much liquid. I’d be willing to try this again, but maybe grind the quinoa into a flour, instead of cooking it with water, and maybe a bit less coconut oil.

  24. But, I thought it was absolutely delicious! It just didn’t look so pretty. I now have leftover ganache and strawberries, and I’ve been eating them fondu style 🙂

  25. Happy birthday!)) Great recipe, I should try cook it. Can I use honey instead of agave nectar?

  26. This is the craziest chocolate cake recipe I have ever seen! But it looks absolutely delicious! Definitely going to try it out.

  29. YUM! I’m totally going to make this!
    Can you make a fall cake, like a pumpkin or pecan cake? I would love to see something healthy and seasonal since I love fall and winter so much. Thanks, Olga! Love your channel!

  30. Happy Birthday, Love your ideas, i have never heard of quinoa in a cake, but i will try it. By the way, i tried your macarons and raw brownies, so delicious

  34. hi, can u tell me please where can i get all the above ingredients. im planning on making this cake sometime this week. thanks so much

  36. Happy Anniversary! Thank you so much for this recipe. Though I would not have an opportunity to cook it (I don’t have quinoa and I’m not vegan so it’s gonna be easier for me personally to cook a normal cake without all those vegan things haha =) I’m definitely gonna steal your idea of decoration with strawberries!! It’s amazing!
    Btw I would love to see you making suchi or rolls. I’ve never had enough courage to try it myself. Will you help me? =)

  40. Olga! I made the cake this weekend for my birthday!! It came out so delicious! I have no idea how you came up with this recipe but it’s seriously amazing. Thank you for creating a YouTube channel! Your hard work does not go unappreciated! I’ve been wheat free for most of this year and I’ve missed cake! This fulfilled my every craving! And everyone was completely impressed with it! Haha thank you again for sharing this great recipe! -Love & appreciation from Long Beach,CA

  41. Hi Olga! I’m the one who granted you permission to use my pumpkin tart picture for your website. What a lovely site! I had a couple of minutes to spare so watched your video for the vegan chocolate strawberry cake. Looks delicious. Your instructions were easy to understand and I think you are a lovely presence. I think including bloopers at the end is a nice touch. Keeps it real. Thank you again for asking to use the picture. So often we photographers will simply run across our photos being used somewhere by someone who didn’t ask permission so I really appreciate that you asked. It gave me a chance to learn about you and your wonderful website. I have put my email address in so I will be back to visit periodically. Take care!

    • Carol, thank you so much again for letting me use your picture and for leaving me such a sweet comment! I really appreciate your kind words. I’m so glad you liked my website! It’s a work-in-progress still since I’m doing everything myself, but I’m determined to keep improving it. So hopefully next time you visit, it will be a bit better.

      Thank you again!

      – Olga

  44. Hi Olga, great recipe. I’ve tried a few of your backing recipes and they are amazing. It would be great if could make healthy cupcakes. Thanks!

  45. I love it for my birthday, but im alergic to quinoa, there is something i can replace that? Like oats, kiwicha. please i really want to eat cake for my birthday

  46. I made this tonight. I used 85% chocolate for the ganache. I would make
    this again except next time I would use 70%. 85% was just too dark and
    bitter. The cake was awesome though! Thanks for the recipe!

  50. YES!!! Olga! I need moor recipe’s Gluten free… moooooooor!!! were I
    find ?
    Thanks you !!!! Ana

  52. Can i use flax egg instead of applesauce????? Have allergy 🙁 how much flax
    eggs do i need????

  53. hello olga
    loving your recipes! Its helping me to stick to healthy eating habits.
    I was wondering what ingredient i could substitute for the applesauce?
    Could you please do some recipes that are free from fructan (i.e., foods free from garlic, onion, lentil and chickpeas)?
    Thanks heaps 😀

    • Thank you, Fatima! Applesauce is a vegan substitute for eggs in baking. In this recipe, you can use 4 eggs instead.

      I love cooking with garlic. So it ends up in a lot of my recipes as you probably noticed hehe
      But it’s usually not one of the essential ingredients, and you can always skip it. But I will keep your request in mind for the future recipes! 🙂

  54. Wow that looks fantastic, although it’s a calorie bomb(but I guess it
    doesn’t matter that much since it’s 10x healthier than a normal cake)

    Anyway, I wanted to ask if I can lower the amount of coconut oil to like
    0.25 cup or substitute it with something else(like milk, I’m not a vegan)
    withouth making the cake too dry? Coconut oil is incredibly expensive here
    so I’m looking for a cheaper option.

  59. Hi Olga! I just started following you, and I must say I love your recipies
    — and this cake looks SO yummy. But.. I’m allergic to baking soda and
    baking powder (and eggs..) Do you have any suggestions for what I can use
    instead? 🙂 Sending one big hug in your direction 🙂 — Elin

  60. Delicious!! Recipe works wonderful, please do variations of flavors(
    instead of chocolate ). Keep doing great recipes 🙂

  63. That was amazing! Such a smart recipe, I will try it and I just subscribed!

  64. I tried this yesterday and it came out soooooooo good!!!! Thank you Olga, I
    will do this for my birthday <3

  65. Olga, I have no words!!! It’s beyond good!! I’m eating my 2nd serving
    (waahh) as I’m typing a comment. i don’t usually comment but for this, i
    feel like i have to. THANK YOU!!

  66. Vigljadit klassno, objazatelno nugno poprobivat! Ja ochen rada chto nashla
    tvoi video na youtube Olja 🙂 Poskolku ja em gluten-free, dairy-free ja
    vsegda starays naiti novie produkti i novie sposobi prigotavlenija. Nikogda
    ne slishela o nektare agavi ili o quinoa, no teper ochen pri ochen
    zainteresovana. Zabavno, u nas ochen poxogie istorii! Ja toge priexala v
    Canadu s roditeljami v let 16.

  67. If u add coconut oil to ur desserts, will we taste the strong flavor of the
    coconut?

  68. Hi! I really want to make this cake for my dad’s birthday, but unfortunetly
    he can’t eat apples. Could I use pearsauce or like blended pears instead of
    the applesauce or will that ruin the entire cake? Thanks X

  69. Hi! I really want to make this cake for my dad’s birthday, but unfortunetly
    he can’t eat apples. Could I use pearsauce or like blended pears instead of
    the applesauce or will that ruin the entire cake? Thanks X

  74. Can you tell us the calories in in? >< it looks pretty good but will it cost alot?

  78. Omg I love this recipe its so simple and I’m trying to be gluten free right
    now. One day I will have my own vegan bakery and with your permission I
    would love to use this recipe and if not I understand.

  85. Finally an actual vegan cake! Most I’ve seen use white sugar and vanilla,
    for some people don’t know they’re not vegan. Lovely video <3

  90. When I saw that the title of the video said “flourless” I thought this
    would be another one of those cakes with a crapload of nuts, but you
    surprised me. I never thought about using Quinoa in a cake, thanks for the
    great idea! 🙂

  95. I get stomachaches when I eat quinoa. Are there any other grains/seeds that
    you would suggest to replace the quinoa?

  97. Love your channel just found it and subscribed…look forward to many yummy
    recipes

  98. your cake looks lovely. I tried to make these into cupcakes and they
    exploded :P, followed your instructions but something must have gone
    terribly wrong haha 🙂

  99. hi my name Isabel i made your cake i wanted to make it for my mother in
    law’s b-day it cost me 40$ for all the ingredient it came out looking like
    a flat tire and after an hour 30 min my tooth pick was still not dry i’m
    so not happy.

  100. I have to do that strawberry design on a cake for my mom. She would love
    that… I can’t tell how many strawberries is 400 grams though…

  102. Lovely video , I m wondering if I can use same amount coconut flour to
    replace quinoa ?

  103. i was looking for a healthy cakes to make for Christmas and this is going
    to be the one of them for sure!so glad i discovered your channel:)

  104. I made it, and it came out delicious. I am in Uruguay and we tested the
    cake as dessert December 31!

  105. Thank you for sharing your great recipe. You are such a sweet heart. God
    Bless. I can’t wait to try to make this cake.

  108. Woow I luved it but I don’t have quinoa right now in my country can I
    replace it with oats? ! 🙂

  112. you are pretty but your makeup is sooo bad. ğlease dont ever do your makeup
    like this

  118. This looks so so yummy Olga!! I’m probably going to try this! I’m from
    Canada, BC 🙂 also by the way i’m kinda obsessed with your channel now you
    are so nice 😀

  119. I made this!!! I am so proud of myself 😀 it’s too delicious. My family and
    husband loved it! Everyone should make this 🙂
    A wonderful recipe. Thank you <3
    Love your videos!!

  122. I actually made this last year and wow!!! It was delicious. I made the
    mistake of putting in the fridge before serving and that made the ganage
    very difficult to swallow lol!! Will be making this again on Friday. You
    think I can make this a day before and leave it out until ready to serve
    the next day ?

  123. I have lately been on such a chocolate cake high! It’s very important that the version I eat is wholesome and healthy–just like this one! I love quinoa and coconut milk 🙂 thank you for also making this vegan!